This is the first tweetalong on patrol for HPD, says Angela Douglas, senior police officer and social media coordinator. This is in anticipation of National Night Out on Oct. 1, which will also be live-tweeted. It's also part of what's being billed as tonight's "Texas Tweetalong."

Rosenberg, Arlington and Fort Worth cops will all be tweeting tonight, with HPD tweeting from @houstonpolice with the hash tag #tweetalong from 6 -11 p.m.

Douglas will be riding along with a fellow officer on the east end of town. She says nothing will be off-limits.

"We will be a two-man unit tonight," Douglas says. "I am going to also be re-tweeting the other agencies too."

They may also be taking pictures along the way, if the situation calls for it. There could also be video too.

"The purpose is to show an evening patrol shift," Douglas says. "So you never know what could happen."

HPD has been wanting to do this for some time and the recent Rosenberg tweetalong went so well that HPD ramped up the project.

Douglas says that they have started to use Facebook a lot more to get the word out about crimes, and there is already an active YouTube channel.

"My goal is to give someone an idea of what happens on a patrol shift," Douglas says.